Long Island liar George Santos sinks to a new low by comparing himself to ‘Rosa Parks’
Long Island liar George Santos drops to new low by comparing himself to ‘Rosa Parks’ – and saying he ‘refuses to sit in the back’ – as he awaits trial on 13 charges including fraud and money laundering
- Rep. George Santos compared his experience of being instructed to sit in the back of the convention hall to the plight faced by civil rights icon Rosa Parks
- Said Senator Mitt Romney was the one who asked him to move this year during Biden’s State of the Union address earlier this year
- Santos awaits trial on 13 charges, including wire fraud and theft of public funds
George Santos compared himself to civil rights icon Rosa Parks in another embarrassing performance by the lying New York congressman.
The embattled legislator says he refuses to be silenced as Santos faces multiple investigations related to campaign finance laws and his resume, career and background embellishments that propelled him to public office.
It comes as Santos awaits trial after being arrested in May on 13 charges, including bank fraud and theft of public funds.
Speaking about Mike Crispi’s Unafraid program, Rep. Santos to Senator Mitt Romney and other establishment Republicans who he claimed “got away with getting along.”
“It won’t stay that way again,” he stressed in the interview. ‘I’m going to call them. If you want to call me a liar, I’ll call you a chosen one.”
Rep. George Santos compared his experience of being instructed to sit in the back of the convention hall to the plight faced by civil rights icon Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was arrested in 198555 for refusing to give up her seat in the “colored” section of the bus to white passengers after their “white” section was full. She became a civil rights hero for helping lead the bus boycott
Santos participated in the virtual interview from what appeared to be the back seat of an SUV.
He claimed Romney tried to persuade him to sit in the back of the room for President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address earlier this year — and slammed the Utah senator for wearing a Ukrainian lapel pin during the speech.
The interaction led Santos to compare herself to Rosa Parks.
“I mean, Mitt Romeny, the man who goes to the state of the Union of the United States with a Ukrainian lapel pin, tells me, a Latino, gay man that I shouldn’t sit in the front — that I should sit in the front. back,” Santos complained. ‘Well, guess what? Rosa Parks wasn’t in the back, and I’m not going to be in the back. That’s just the reality of how it works.’
Parks became a noted civil rights hero after, in a 1955 incident, she refused to get up from her seat on a public bus to make room for white passengers, even though she was in the section segregated for “colored” passengers.
She was arrested for civil disobedience, which was against Alabama segregation laws at the time.
Santos suggests that Romney was trying to sequester him—as a minority member of the LBTQ community—to the back of the room.
Mitt Romney lives in a very different world. And he needs to buckle up — it’s going to be a very bumpy ride for him,” the Long Island lawmaker concluded.
Rep. Santos is facing multiple investigations and was arrested and jailed on 13 charges, including wire fraud and theft of public funds.
Santos said Senator Mitt Romney was the legislator who asked him to move to the back of the room
The father of Congressman Fercino dos Santos Jr. (left) is one of two individuals who raised the $500,000 to bail out the embattled Republican liar after he was arrested on 13 charges in May.
The legislator’s father, Gercino dos Santos Jr., and aunt Elma Preven raised the money to pay his bail and get him out of jail.
Santos has engaged in a slew of problematic — and illegal — behavior since his 2022 campaign for Congress. But the lies were only exposed after he was elected as the new congressman for New York’s 3rd Congressional District.
As the case against him continues in New York, Santos also faces an ethics investigation in Congress.
Following the indictment filed in New York in May, the House Ethics Committee voted to expand the investigation’s jurisdiction to include charges raised in New York’s case against Santos alleging he fraudulently received unemployment benefits. have obtained.
Allegations against Santos in the indictment allege that he applied for New York unemployment benefits under fraudulent pretenses because he was making $120,000 a year from a Florida investment company.
The indictment also states that he spent tens of thousands of dollars donated to his congressional campaign on personal expenses such as his car payment and designer goods, and lied to Congress on financial disclosure forms.
He lied about his educational background and work history, and also claimed that his mother died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.